Background: This is a second round, East Regional match-up between #3 seed Mascoma and #6 seed Dupont, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the Sweet […]
Background: This is a first round, East Regional match-up between #3 seed Mascoma and #14 seed PetroAlgae, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the second-round (round of 32), and a shot at the Biofuels Sweet Sixteen. The loser: Goes home. Laurels: Mascoma is the 12th […]
In Massachusetts, Metabolix reports that Barbara H. Wells, Ph.D., has joined its board of directors. Also, Mascoma Corporation announced the appointment of David Arkowitz as its new Chief Financial Officer.
In New Hampshire, Mascoma has named Stephen Kennedy as Executive Vice President of Research and Development. Prior to joining Mascoma, Mr. Kennedy was most recently at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the Executive Director, Novartis/MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing. In Washington, BIO announced that Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma will be presented the annual […]
In Michigan, the Sierra Club has called on Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Crystal Falls) to honor a promise on cutting federal spending by blocking $58 million in DOE funding for the proposed Mascoma cellulosic ethanol plant in Kinross. The Club claims that the proposed project will generate excessive emissions, and will burn 33 percent more energy […]
In New Hampshire, Mascoma announced that Valero Energy has joined as an investor in the company. Further, Mascoma, Valero, and Mascoma’s operating subsidiary, Frontier Renewable Resources, (jointly owned with J.M. Longyear) have signed a non-binding letter of intent to support the construction of Mascoma’s 40 million gallon cellulosic ethanol plant in Kinross, Michigan. Groundbreaking on the […]
Colin South, the former President of Mascoma, has joined Lignol as CTO and has joined the company’s board. “Colin was serving on the board,” said Lignol CEO Ross MacLachlan and I had asked him to lead a technology review as we looked at setting up a technology advisory board. A couple of months into the […]
The first thing you notice when you arrive at the Mascoma demonstration plant in Rome, NY is the machine gun emplacement guarding the entrance to the parking lot. It gets you attention, but what the emplacement actually guarding is the Eastern Air Command, the NORAD unit that handles aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for […]
In New Hampshire, Mascoma reported yesterday that it had acquired SunOpta BioProcess, a division of SunOpta Inc. (STKL) This combination brings together the fiber preparation and pretreatment technologies of SBI and the consolidated bioprocessing technology of Mascoma, to create a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid […]
Origin Materials announced 30 percent reduction in force earlier today. For several months, since the disclosure of long timelines for Origin’s first commercial OM2 project amidst soaring costs for debt and equity, observers had already surmised that Origin was going to be unable to realize its ambitions without a leaner organization, and a re-think of […]
